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The editors of
National Wildlife® are pleased to announce the
winners of their 39th Annual Photo Contest. A
selection of the top 2009 images appears in the
December/January issue of the magazine, and all of the
winners can be viewed online at www.nwf.org/photozone/.
This
year, two Grand Prize winners were selected. In
the Amateur and Youth divisions, Steffen Binke of
Moorobool, Australia received the $5,000 prize for his
dramatic, up-close image of a dwarf minke whale.
Binke took the photo while on a
dive trip in the Great Barrier Reef. Moments after its
eyes emerged from the water for a “spy shot,” the whale
approached the photographer for a closer look. Binke was
only a few feet away when he used a fish-eye lens to
make this award-winning image.
In the
Professional division, Robert M. Palmer of Littleton,
Colorado, received the $5,000 prize for his action shot
of a bald eagle about to capture a starling.
While watching a group of bald
eagles that congregated at a local cattle feed lot, he
noticed the raptors were climbing into the air to catch
starlings and blackbirds—not typical prey for the large
birds. Palmer captured this dramatic midair scene of an
eagle and a starling with his camera before his weeklong
encounter ended and the eagles left the
site.
See other winning images at www.nwf.org/photozone/.
The
National Wildlife Photo Contest will celebrate its 40th
year in 2010. This will be our biggest contest ever,
with more than $30,000 in cash prizes! You can enter as
many as 25 photos in any of seven categories in three
divisions. The contest will open in late January and
full information on how to enter will be available on
NWF’s website at that time.
Sign
up here to receive an email notification letting you
know when the competition officially
opens.
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